How will Cardano enter the Shelley era?

In today’s article, we will dive into technical details related to the transition of the Cardano protocol to the Shelley era. You can read about hard forks and hard fork combinator that allows smooth switching between two versions of the protocol.

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The work on a project never ends

In the world of software development, there is nearly no point in time in which the team could say that the work is complete and it there will be no need to work on the same part of the project again. Fixing new bugs, implementing improvements, or adding new features takes place for the whole life of a project. Cardano is a project that will be continuously improved over time to offer more and more functionalities. It is necessary to build the project with upcoming changes in mind. To design a project properly and make it modular can significantly help in the future.

Every blockchain project consists of a few key components. The most important ones are a networking layer, consensus mechanism, and a ledger. There is a dependency between the components from the bottom up. So it means that firstly a block must be received by a node via the network layer to make a decision whether to accept it or not. The decision is made by the consensus mechanism in order to update the ledger. If a block is accepted then it can be added to the blockchain.